Method of making cartridge-belts.



W. G. FISHER.

METHOD OF MAKING CARTRIDGE BELTS.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 29, 1909.

962,331, Patented June 21, 1910.

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nuiTnn STATES PATENT oTTTcn WILLIAM G. FISHER, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

METHOD OF MAKING CARTRIDGE-BELTS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. FIsI-IER, of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Cartridge-Belts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved method of making cartridge belts,the ob ject of the invention being to provide a simple and eflicient method of making a narrow cartridge belt having pockets which depend below the lower edge of the body of the belt.

With this object in View, the invention consists in certain novel steps in the method of making a cartridge belt, as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the acompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a cartridge-belt showing an embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view showing the development of the invention during the process of manufacture of the same, and Figs. 3 and t are enlarged vertical transverse sections, illustrating the manner of weaving the pockets.

Heretofore, in the manufacture of multiply woven fabric cartridge belts, the pockets have been formed integral with the body of the belt by separating the plies at intervals and providing one separated ply with sufficient fullness to properly form the pocket and permit the body of the belt back of the pocket to lie flat against the wearer. WVith prior constructions, it has been necessary to make the body of the belt equal in width to the depth of a pocket which will accommodate a clip of cartridges. This necessitated a very wide belt which has been found objectionable, unduly heavy and uncomfortable to the wearer.

To overcome objections incident to cartridge belts as heretofore constructed and still provide a narrow belt, having integral pockets of suflicient depth to accommodate clips of cartridges such as now in use, I propose to weave on the belt, cartridge pockets which shall have portions depending below the lower edge of the belt. In the manufacture of such a cartridge belt, I proceed as follows :After a given length of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 29, 1909.

Patented June 21, 1910.

Serial No. 510,322.

fabric has been woven in the usual manner to form an end section of the belt, I proceed to weave a pocket and employ four plies of fabric instead of two in the formation of the pocket. When the weaving of the pocket portion begins, I first weave a few picks of the weft thread into the two outside plies of the belt and then a few picks into the two center plies, interweaving these two center plies so as to form one solid fabric as shown in Fig. 4. In this manner the closed side of the pocket is formed. After putting in four, six or eight picks of weft thread, I then proceed to weave the pocket with the two center plies separated as shown in Fig. 3, and after weaving a suflicient amount to form a pocket of proper size, I then close the other side of the portion of the pocket which is subsequently made to depend below the belt, by weaving in the same manner as above described. I then proceed to weave a few picks of weft thread into the two outside plies of the belt to close the portion of the pocket which lies directly in front of the body of the belt. All four plies may be incorporated into the body of the belt, so that those portions of the belt where pockets are not located, may be four-ply woven fabric, or two plies may be dropped and afterward cut-off, thus forming the body of the belt where no pockets are located, of two plies.

After the Weaving has been completed, I then cut down the two slidly-woven side portions of the inside plies, within the pocket, or, if I have not woven the inside plies into the body of the belt, I cut the threads where they drop out of use and trim the same. After the inside plies (united at their side edges and one end) have been separated from the sides of the portion of the pocket which lies in front of the belt, I proceed to turn the united inside plies, insideout and cause the same to depend from the lower portion of the belt and form a downward extension of the pocket, giving to the latter sufficient depth to accommodate a clip of cartridges such as now used.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 represents the body of the belt having pockets 2 thereon. The two intermediate plies are shown at M, having their side edges woven together, as indicated at 5. After these inside plies have been turned inside-out as previously explained, the depending extension 6 of the pocket is formed, and thus a narrow woven fabric belt is provided with integral woven fabric cartridge pockets which have a depth appreciably greater than the width of the belt and suflicient in all proportions to inclose a clip of cartridges such as now in use.

Having fully described my invention what pending below the body of the belt, consisting in weaving a plurality of parallel connected plies, weaving said plies separated from each other at intervals, weaving two separated plies intermediate of said firstmentioned separated lies weaving said intermediate plies toget er at one end and integral at the other end with the first-mentioned separated plies, separating the united side edges of the inside plies from the body of the fabric and reversing said intermediate plies and projecting below the body of the belt and in alinement with the first mentioned separated plies form with the latter,

la) pocket depending below the body of the 3. The herein described method of making a woven fabric belt having pockets depending below the belt, consisting in weaving a plurality of connect-ed plies, weaving said plies separated at intervals, weaving two separated plies intermediate the firstmentioned separated plies, weaving the side edges of the intermediate plies together and integral with the side portions of the first mentioned plies and integral with the upper edges of the first-mentioned separated plies, severing the connected side portions of the intermediate plies from the first-mentioned plies, and reversing the intermediate plies and projecting them below the body of the belt in alinement with the first mentioned plies to cooperate with the latter to form a pocket.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' WILLIAM G. FISHER. Witnesses:

J. LEONARD DOLHAIL, J. D. BROWN. 

